Overview
The Child Protection Case Worker is responsible for providing case management services to Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC) and those at risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence.
Tasks Summary
- Develop or strengthen relationships with Child Protection (CP) case management actors.
- Provide case management services for vulnerable children.
- Conduct assessments, including BIDs and Best Interests Assessments (BIAs).
- Conduct alternative care placements for UASCs and assess their needs.
- Identify potential caregivers, e.g. foster families.
- Conduct home visits to foster care homes.
- Ensure timely documentation of case files and updating of cases in ProGres V4 and CP case trackers.
- Represent DRC in field-based Child Protection case management meetings.
- Participate in case conferences, case supervision sessions, and inter-agency coordination meetings.
- Maintain and strengthen networks with other service providers.
- Actively participate in Child Protection inter-agency Coordination meetings.
- Work closely with the other Protection prevention team.
- Contribute to drafting weekly and monthly reports.
- Support and guide Para Social Workers in drafting and sharing their activity reports.
- Identify, document and disseminate project success, challenges and follow up on implementation of project’s action points.
- Assist in participatory needs/vulnerability and capacity assessments.
- Provide ongoing mentorship for Para Social Workers and other DRC community-based structures.
- Uphold DRC’s code of conduct and principles of accountability.
- Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movement to the field.
- Follow all DRC procedures for security, Finance, Logistics, HR and Administration.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum of two (2) years’ experience working with children and vulnerable communities, and protection programming experience, and/or child protection advocacy programs.
- Experience in protection interventions in line with Refugees operation with wide Child Protection.
- Experience of working with UN or Non‐Governmental organizations.
- Experience in child protection case management, UASC programming, or Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) activities (Desirable).
- Experience working in humanitarian or refugee contexts (Desirable).
Qualification Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Community Development, Guidance and Counseling.
- Professional training in Best Interest Procedure processes, CP case management and CP community-based protection.
- Knowledge of the usage of ProGres V4 CP module.
- Basic computer skills (MS Word, Excel).
- Basic knowledge in disaster risk mitigation and anticipatory approaches.
- Ability to ride a motorcycle with Valid riding permit.
